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ENTERTAINING: The family wanted a space to entertain parties of up to 30 people, so sitting areas for conversation were key. There’s one next to the barn door, and there’s also one surrounding a large raised gas-powered fire pit with cedar accents. “It’s a great winter type of a thing to have,” Conn says. CEDAR ACCENTS: To make the cedar barn that's stained black blend in with the updates, designers went to great lengths to incorporate lots of cedar. “The materials we chose were to extend the feeling that it was a farm/barn type of landscape,” Conn says. For example, the grill area features sandstone-topped counters underneath a pergola made from barn beams painstak ingly sourced. “We actually had to go to Carrollton to get wood from a deconstruct ed barn to make it match,” he says.

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